Steve Clifford, the former CEO of KING Broadcasting, has written humor for Crosscut.com and the Huffington Post. He is the author of "The CEO Pay Machine."
God spaketh: "America shall become a desolate land where truth has no meaning, but everywhere lying triumphs and conspiracy theories and disinformation suffocate mere facts."
I began to understand that Seattleites respond to irony with deadpan humor by pretending that they don’t get the joke. They best your irony with a prevailing irony.
“He is losing it,” chimed in Hannah Mills, a 34-year-old Social Media Influencer. "He once provided free manna from Heaven. Now He offers us lattes for $8.50. I wonder if He even knows the price of eggs today?”
Among my presidential promises: I will also make abortion equitable. Whatever a man starts, he must carry to term. Men running for President must campaign for nine months. Wimps like DeSantis could not drop out.
Trump declared, announcing the Department of Hoax: "China is ruining our economy with its climate-change hoax. The Chinese are tremendous hoaxers. They're melting icebergs, engineering monthlong triple-digit heat waves, and flooding the seas to raise water level. Believe me, these guys are beautiful hoaxers, incredible hoaxers."
Sen. Kennedy, in imploring the new Speaker: I am a Christian and believe that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. But Jesus lived long ago.
If the book banners really cared about the students, they would proscribe overlong books stuffed with impenetrable prose. Books that provoke panic attacks when appearing on the final exam.